Morag/Carmina Gadelica

Kate Barnes of Appleton (now Poet Laureate of the State of
Maine) was a young mother living in northern Mexico with 3 children when she
wrote Carmina Gadelica.*She had loved th esounds and shapes of
Gaelic words as a child.After she came
to hear my musical setting of the old Norn legend, The Play of the Lady Odivere, she sent her own poem to us, which
we later included in the concert-portion of production of that astonishing
tale.

The present
setting that Carol and I use for Kate's poem is a tune I made for our lovely
friend Morag Henriksen of the Isle of Skye.